1998 Raven Mystery Award Winner

1998 Raven Mystery Award Winner

1997 Raven Mystery Award Winner

1996 Raven Mystery Award Winner

The Library of America, for their publication of the collected writings of Raymond Chandler

1995 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Dr. Paul LeClerc, President, New York Public Library

1993 Raven Mystery Award Winner

President Bill Clinton, Reader of the Year

1992 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Harold Q. Masur, for his years of service to MWA as general counsel

1991 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Sarah Booth Conroy, Reader of the YearCarol Brener, for her skill in selling books to the public

1989 Raven Mystery Award Winner

The Bouchercon Annual World Mystery Convention"Shear Madness," by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan (Cranberry Productions), for longest-running off-Broadway play

1988 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Angela LansburyVincent Price

1986 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Suzi Oppenheimer, Reader of the Year

1985 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Eudora Welty, Reader of the Year

1984 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Sylvia Porter, Reader of the Year

1983 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Reader of the Year

1980 Raven Mystery Award Winner

"Muppet Murders" ("Muppets Show")

1979 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Alberto Tedeschi (Mondadori), publisher of the succesful Italian mystery series

1978 Raven Mystery Award Winner

I Am My Brother's Keeper, by Richard N. Hughes (WPIX) for being the best showcase for mystery storiesDanny Arnold, (ABC) as the executive producer of "Barney Miller" TV police seriesEdward Gorey, for the sets he designed for "Dracula" on Broadway

1972 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Hardcover Book Jacket:If You Want to See Your Wife Again (G. P. Putnam's Sons), Whim to Kill (Wm. Morrow), The Stalker (Random House).Softcover Book Jacket:Black Man White Man (Ace), The Shadows of the House (Avon), The Lady of the Lake (Ballantine)

1971 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Judith Crist, Reader of the YearHardcover Book Jacket:Dodd, Mead (Act of Violence), If Laurel Shot Hardy the World Would End (Doubleday), If the Shroud Fits (Inner Sanctum).Softcover Book Jacket:Last Case (Avon Classic Crime Collection), One Man Show (Avon), Picture Miss Seeton (Popular Library)

1967 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Richard Watts Jr., Reader of the YearEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine on its twenty-sixth anniversary and as the best showcase for mystery stories.Hardcover Book JacketLet Sleeping Girls Lie (Wm. Morrow), The Crimson Madness of Little Doom (Doubleday), The Baron and the Mogul Sword (Scribners).Softcover Book JacketSome of Your Blood (Ballantine), Crowell-Collier; Bantam Books; I Am the Cat (Collier)

1966 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Hardcover Book JacketGirl on the Run (Random House; Doubleday) Simon & Schuster; Viking.Softcover Book JacketKnock and Wait a While(Bantam), Dell; Popular Library

1965 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Dr. Milton Helpern, for his work in forensic medicinePhilip Wittenberg, for his long years of voluntary service (Scroll)Hardcover Book Jacket: Doubleday; Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries; Walker & Co.Softcover Book Jacket: Bantam Books; Dell; Popular Library

1963 Raven Mystery Award Winner

1962 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Book Jacket: Walker & Co.; Doubleday, Harper Bros.The Defenders, a TV show in its first year

1961 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Ilka Chase, Reader of the YearHardcover Book Jacket: A Mark of Displeasure (Scribners).Paperback Book Jacket:The Three Coffins (Dell)

1960 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Ray Brennan, for crime reportingDavid C. Cook, for Best Detective Stories of the YearPhyllis McGinley, Mystery Fan of the YearAlfred Hitchcock, for his contribution to the mysteryGail Jackson, producer of Perry Mason TV series

1959 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (posthumous), Reader of the Year (Scroll accepted by
Eleanor Roosevelt)Lawrence G. Blochman, for long and distinguished service to MWA and The Third
DegreeFrederic G. Melcher, on his retirement after thirty-five years with Publishers Weekly Western Printing & Lithographing Co., for Dell book jackets

1958 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Harper & Bros., for general excellenceDell, a Scroll for their Great Mystery Series book jackets

1957 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Miss Dorothy Kilgallen, Reader of the YearHardcover Book Jacket:Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (Doubleday)

1956 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Book Jacket: Scribners

1955 Raven Mystery Award Winner

Berton Rouche, for his collection of stories of medical detection, Eleven Blue MenSoftcover Book Jacket: Dell